18 Notable Peacemakers in Australia & New Zealand/Aotearoa Click here for peace monuments in Australia. | Click here for peace monuments in New Zealand/Aotearoa. Click here for return to worldwide list of notable peacemakers (& for meaning of symbols).

1839-1917 - Emma Miller - Trade unionist, suffragist, freethinker & founder of the Australian Labor Party. Statue in Brisbane.

1885-1961 - Adele Pankhurst - Daughter of Emmeline Goulden Pankhurst (qv). Suffragist. Communist. Buried in Australia.

1901-1990 - Harry Bridges - Union leader. In USA after 1922. Led Intl Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) over 40 years. Prosecuted in 1930s, 1940s & 1950s.

1847-1934 - Kate Sheppard - Most prominent member of suffrage movement in New Zealand (first country to introduce universal suffrage).

1885-1961 - Adele Pankhurst - Daughter of Emmeline Goulden Pankhurst (qv). Suffragist. Communist. Buried in Australia.

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1915-Alive - John Burton - Permanent Head, Australian Department of External Affairs, 1945-50. Helped found International Peace Research Association in 1964.

1927-2012 - Larry Ross - Founded NZ Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Cte in 1981, achieving 105 nuclear free zones & leading to the Nuclear Free Zone Act of 1987. 1930-1986 - Barry Mitcalfe - Leader of the New Zealand movement against the Vietnam War. After the war ended he became a leader of the New Zealand anti-nuclear movement.

1938-Alive - Helen Caldicott - Founded Women's Action for New Directions in 1982. In USA 1977-86. 1980 1982 Year?

1946-Alive - Peter Singer - Moral philosopher. Supports euthanasia with consent of the subject. Wrote "Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Ethics."
1946-Alive - Jo Vallentine - Peace activist & politician. Elected to Senate 1985-92 as member of Nuclear Disarmament Party.

1947-Alive - Philip Nitschke - Doctor, humanist & author. Founder & director of the pro-euthanasia group Exit International.

1949-Alive - Steve Killelea - IT entrepreneur. Creative force behind Global Peace Index (GPI). Founder of Institute for Economics & Peace.

1951-Alive - Martin Indyk - Foreign policy expert. Twice US ambassador to Israel. Conducted Israel-Palestine peace talks in 2013.

c1960-Alive - Kate Dewes - Co-Director, Disarmament and Security Centre in Christchurch. Wife of Robert Green (qv).
c1960-Alive - Robert Green - Commander in Royal Navy (UK) 1962-82. Co-Director, Disarmament and Security Centre in Christchurch. Husband of Kate Dewes (qv).
c1960-Alive - Margaret Bell Thomson - Geographer. Lives in Dunedin, Otago, South Island. Wrote "New Zealand Country of Peace" in 2012 (shows 60 peace sites).

1962-Alive - Alyn Ware - Peace activist. VP of Intl Peace Bureau. Coodinator of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation & Disarmament (PNND) in NYC. 2009

1971-Alive - Julian Assange - Journalist. Co-founded WikiLeaks in 2006. Published US military & diplomatic documents leaked by Chelsea Manning (qv). Now living at Ecuador Embassy in London.